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落

落

Translingual

Han character

落 (radical 140 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿水竹口 (TEHR), four-corner 44164, composition ⿱艹洛)

References

  • KangXi: page 1043, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31362
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1503, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3255, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+843D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 落

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (各) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
髂 *kʰraːɡs
路 *ɡ·raːɡs
輅 *ɡ·raːɡs
賂 *ɡ·raːɡs
虂 *ɡ·raːɡs
露 *ɡ·raːɡs
潞 *raːɡs
鷺 *raːɡs
璐 *raːɡs
簬 *raːɡs
簵 *ɡ·raːɡs
洛 *ɡ·raːɡ
駱 *ɡ·raːɡ
絡 *ɡ·raːɡ
酪 *ɡ·raːɡ
烙 *ɡ·raːɡ
雒 *ɡ·raːɡ
珞 *ɡ·raːɡ
硌 *ɡ·raːɡ
袼 *ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿 *ɡ·raːɡ
鉻 *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥 *ɡ·raːɡ
鵅 *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌 *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落 *ɡ·raːɡ
各 *klaːɡ
胳 *klaːɡ
閣 *klaːɡ
格 *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱 *klaːɡ
恪 *kʰlaːɡ
愙 *kʰaːɡ
貉 *ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢 *ɡlaːɡ
佫 *ɡlaːɡ
略 *ɡ·raɡ
茖 *kraːɡ
骼 *kraːɡ
觡 *kraːɡ
蛒 *kraːɡ
敋 *kraːɡ
客 *kʰraːɡ
喀 *kʰraːɡ
揢 *kʰraːɡ
額 *ŋɡraːɡ
峉 *ŋɡraːɡ
頟 *ŋɡraːɡ
詻 *ŋɡraːɡ
垎 *ɡraːɡ
楁 *ɡraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raːɡ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 洛 ‎(OC *ɡ·raːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 落
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 盧各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lak̚/
Li
Rong		 /lɑk̚/
Wang
Li		 /lɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 luò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 落
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 luò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kə.rˤak/
English fall (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 落
Reading # 1/1
No. 3880
Phonetic
component		 各
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 落
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·raːɡ/

Definitions

落

  1. to fall; to drop
    日落  ―  rìluò  ―  sunset; sundown
  2. net income; surplus
  3. (Cantonese) to go down; to get out of
    落船 [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  lok6 syun4 [Jyutping]  ―  to disembark from a boat
    落車 / 落车 [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  lok6 ce1 [Jyutping]  ―  to exit a car
  4. (Cantonese) to fall down; to rain or snow
    啲雨一滴都未落佢已經喺度攞住把遮行。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    啲雨一滴都未落佢已经喺度攞住把遮行。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Di1 jyu5 jat1 dik1 dou1 mei6lok6 keoi5 ji5 ging1 hai2 dou6 lo2 zyu6 baa2 ze1 haang4. [Jyutping]
    He had already started to carry an umbrella before the rain even began to fall.
  5. (Cantonese) to put in
    落味精 [Cantonese]  ―  lok6 mei6 zing1 [Jyutping]  ―  to add MSG
  6. (Cantonese) down [ onto; to]
  7. to come down
  8. to fall down
  9. into

See also

  • 下 (xià)
  • 加 (jiā, “to add”)
  • 掉 (diào)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

落

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to fall
  2. to leave behind
  3. to drop
  4. to come down

Readings

Compounds

See also

Korean

Hanja

落 • ‎(rak>nak) (hangeul 락>낙, revised rak>nak, McCune-Reischauer rak>nak, Yale lak>nak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

落 (lạc, lác, lát, nhác, rác, rạc, xạc)

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